And they weren't kidding when they said it to me." And there's no one ever on the other side that we're looking for, you know? Many police officers say that we were the most accurate cop show on TV. "If we kicked down doors, we'd get hurt, and then we just fall down through the door. "We were never a bunch of badass cops," Lennon said. The "Reno 911!" cast leaned in so far to the wackadoodle weirdness of QAnon that they almost fell over. There's something just ever so slightly cartoonishly dumb about us that pairs well with something like that." "You could put us up against the Muppets. "I don't want to spoil it, obviously, but there's something about the level of incompetence of the 'Reno 911!' squad," he said. He's pleased with ending in the movie, which reveals what QAnon is and where the crazy theories come from. The combination of the cast and the QAnon storyline was a perfect match, Lennon said. "And we said, 'Oh yeah, yeah, sure,'" he said. Then, the Paramount Plus people told Lennon and his crew that they would have to use the title, "Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon." The last time the "Reno 911!" gang got together to make a movie was in 2007 for " Reno 911! Miami."Įxecutives at the Paramount Plus streaming service asked Lennon and the other actors if they would like to make another "Reno 911!" movie, and they agreed. People like David Wain, Michael Showalter (director of " The Eyes of Tammy Faye"), Ken Marino (" Party Down") and Joe Lo Truglio (" Brooklyn Nine-Nine"). "In 1988, we became a comedy group with a bunch of other people at (New York University), but from that very specific group, like a really weird amount of people stayed in comedy and are still like very busy people that you'll see all the time," Lennon told WPR's " BETA." He was also a member of the groundbreaking comedy troupe, "The State," which had a show on MTV in the early 1990s. As if that’s not enough, Lennon is the author of the middle-grade book series about a young detective named Ronan Boyle. And he’s co-written screenplays for the " Night at the Museum" movie franchise. ![]() Lennon has appeared in many films and TV shows. Well, Dangle returned this winter, reunited with his fellow "Reno 911!" cast members for the movie, "Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon." Jim Dangle in the Comedy Central mockumentary, "Reno 911!"Ī parody of the long-running copaganda series, " Cops," "Reno 911!" ran from 2003-09 and again in 2020. It's been almost two decades since actor and comedian Thomas Lennon took on the role of Lt.
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